With the NFL preseason in full swing, I can’t help thinking about the incremental neurological damage that’s being inflicted on the players with each vicious tackle and violent collision. The damage — chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the degenerative brain disease better known as CTE — has often been decades in the making. Chris Nowinski, the former […]
History should be the Federal Reserve’s best teacher in September. It has already shown what happens when central banks answer an energy shock with higher interest rates: employment weakens, investment retreats, and policymakers eventually reverse course after families and businesses have absorbed unnecessary damage. The Fed can learn that lesson now, or make working Americans […]
King Abdullah II is in Beijing this week, his first visit to China since 2015. The instinct in Washington will be to treat that as a warning sign: a treaty ally’s king courting Xi Jinping, right as commentators reach for words like “hedge” and “pivot.” The honest answer to whether Washington should care is: a […]
Nothing much has changed with the New York Times over the years. In the 1930s, thanks to Walter Duranty, the so-called “newspaper of record” was effectively cheerleading for Joseph Stalin’s communism. Today, in Jia Lynn Yang’s “How American Socialism Changed, and Stormed the Democratic Party,” it displays a similar sympathy for a modernized version of […]
After an unseasonably, but not unprecedented, warm winter, the West is bone dry, water supplies are dangerously low, and wildfire risk is fearfully high. Parts of Colorado and Utah are infernos that, despite Herculean efforts and the deaths of three young firefighters, are not contained. Thank God, these fires are not as bad as those […]
There is a street in Tbilisi named after George W. Bush. Count the world’s capitals with a street named for an American president. It will not take you long. For years, Georgia was the largest non-NATO contributor of troops in Afghanistan. For years, International Republican Institute polling found roughly three-quarters of Georgians backing a pro-Western […]
Former Gov. Roy Cooper wants North Carolina to believe his call for Graham Platner to leave the Maine Senate race was an act of conscience. The timeline tells a different story. Cooper moved only after Democratic leadership in Washington moved first, and not a moment before. Start the clock on Oct. 21, 2025. That is […]
From the day the government put Medicaid on the chopping block, I’ve warned that these cuts would have serious consequences for patients, hospitals, and the communities that depend on them. As a retired orthopedic surgeon, I cared for patients in rural Michigan for more than 35 years, many of whom relied on Medicaid to afford […]
The hikes would push members’ pay to $175,500, upper middle-class income territory and more than twice the city’s median income ($81,228), so the move...
As the war in Ukraine grinds into the summer of 2026, the question of a ceasefire has shifted from a distant hope to a grim, strategic necessity. While the rest of the world is celebrating the FIFA World Cup, Russia is mourning its dead. The grand illusions of rapid conquest have shattered, replaced by a […]
While the world’s attention is on Iran, China has been making its moves — buying ample time to extend its dominance in the South Pacific. The timing is not an accident. Recently, on July 6, China launched a submarine-based ballistic missile with a dummy warhead into the Pacific Ocean during a “test” run. The test […]
A bill has been posted on roadside poles and walls in midcoastal Maine under the headline “By Land or By Sea.” It’s the latest left-wing effort to harass officials who refuse to buckle as militant madness sweeps the nation. The bill invites malcontents to pester Chief Justice John Roberts, who, after a hectic Supreme Court […]
When I woke up Saturday morning, the first Instagram story I saw was about the death of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC). I thought, that’s fake news. This can’t be true, until my wife walked in and said, “Have you heard … ?” I couldn’t believe it. The man was fine, touring Ukraine war zones and […]
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration recently scheduled a meeting between his commissioner of international affairs and Iran’s U.N. ambassador. The meeting was only stopped after the State Department intervened and ordered it canceled. Mamdani says he didn’t know about it. That is not a defense. It is an admission that either his office […]
Now that fighting in the Persian Gulf has resumed after Iran attacked commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, the strategic landscape appears to have changed. After three rounds of U.S. military strikes and continued Iranian retaliation, the question is no longer how to restore calm. Rather, policymakers must decide whether the region is heading […]
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf recently declared that the era of one-sided deals is over while highlighting a memorandum provision offering safe passage for commercial vessels for only 60 days. His message was unmistakable: Tehran views negotiations not as a path to reconciliation but as another instrument of leverage. Washington should believe him. For […]
“It’s an absolutely tragic loss for Western democracy. He was an indefatigable defender of the West, of Western values, and of the principles of democracy and freedom. And he was very tough,” former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told me on Monday. “The people of Israel, Ukraine, and Iran owe him a huge amount, as […]
